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Durrantia resurgens

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Durrantia resurgens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Depressariidae
Genus: Durrantia
Species:
D. resurgens
Binomial name
Durrantia resurgens

Durrantia resurgens is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1912. It is found in Mexico and Guatemala.[1]

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The forewings are pale straw ochreous, sparsely peppered with dark brown scales beneath the costa and beyond the cell. A small dark brown spot on the middle of the cell and another at its outer end, with a marginal series of elongate spots around the apex and termen. The hindwings are pale straw grey.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Durrantia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms.
  2. ^ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Lepidoptera Heterocera 4: 115 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.